{"id":459,"date":"2007-12-04T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/04\/and-if-you-thought-licking-toa\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:39:12","slug":"and-if-you-thought-licking-toa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/and-if-you-thought-licking-toa\/","title":{"rendered":"And if you thought licking toads was bad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While smoking toad venom might sound extreme, an even more disturbing method to get high possibly includes sniffing fermented human waste. Vicky Ward, manager of prevention services at Tri-County Mental Health Services in Kansas City, said she has read e-mail warnings about a drug called jenkem.The drug is made from fermented feces and urine.&#8221;We work with a lot of youths and we ask them whether anyone has tried it and they said no,&#8221; Ward said. &#8220;They (the youths) have heard about it because of the Internet.&#8221;But whether people actually use of jenkem has not been determined, Ward said, noting that a Web site that investigates urban legends isn&#8217;t clear on the matter.&#8221;Kids get ideas that later turn out to be unfounded, but you will get some idiots who will try anything,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kids:  Don&#8217;t lick toads.  Don&#8217;t sniff shit.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071203\/ap_on_fe_st\/toad_smoking\">[source]<\/a>[hat tip:  TRCMF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While smoking toad venom might sound extreme, an even more disturbing method to get high possibly includes sniffing fermented human waste. Vicky Ward, manager of prevention services at Tri-County Mental Health Services in Kansas City, said she has read e-mail warnings about a drug called jenkem.The drug is made from fermented feces and urine.&#8221;We work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/and-if-you-thought-licking-toa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And if you thought licking toads was bad&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}